I got a pretty cardboard suitcase at Ross a while ago and have been using it as a toolbox to cart stuff to my dollhouse miniatures meetings. I suspect it was actually intended as cute storage rather than carting stuff around, because it got very faded and was threatening to come apart at the joins.

So I gathered up some Hawaiian print fabric bits a friend gave me and covered and reinforced the case so it's stylishly up to the task once more.

and the inside

I didn't do a lot of pre-planning on this, so had to re-plan quite a bit. If I were starting over, I would paint the whole thing white so the original pattern wouldn't show through the fabric (see the spotty stripes in the front?), and cover the outside of the bottom in a single piece of fabric instead of doing the edges first and patching on the bottom.

I coated it inside and out with Mod Podge, so it won't stain too much, but the glossy coating really shows up the bumps and bubbles!

and here's a before picture. Actually a smaller suitcase of the same design.